2025 Undergraduate Interns Call For Applications
Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry
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2025 Mellon-Fronteridades Undergraduate Internship Program
The Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry invites UA undergraduates to apply for the Fronteridades Undergraduate Internship Program. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, this program offers insights into the complexities and cultural diversity of the U.S.-Mexico border region while fostering scholarship and creative activities.
Interns will engage with local nonprofits or government offices, working 8-10 hours per week during the Spring 2025 semester, earning a stipend of $15 per hour. Students must have completed at least 24 credits and be enrolled in a minimum of 6 credit hours for the semester.
Application Requirements:
- A personal statement (max. 250 words).
- An outline of skills to gain and contributions (max. 250 words).
- CV/resume (max. 2 pages) in PDF format.
Important Dates:
Application Deadline: November 15, 2024, at 12:00 midnight MST
Award Notification: End of November 2024
Project Implementation: Spring 2025 semester
For questions, contact Hiram Pena.
Future of Food & Social Justice Youth Storytelling Lab
The Center for Regional Food Studies (CRFS) at UA is offering a semester-long paid internship focused on food, water, and racial justice. Interns will receive $500 and 3 academic credits (FOOD 393) while gaining experience in storytelling across audio, visual, and written formats.
Selected students (6-8 interns) will document stories on local environmental justice issues for blogs, podcasts, and other media, with guidance from mentors and peer circles.
Key Expectations:
- Attend January 2025 retreat (2 hours)
- Participate in 3 storytelling workshops (Spring 2025)
- Meet twice with cohort and supervisors
- Conduct independent research and develop one story for publication
Eligibility:
- Open to all UA main campus undergraduates enrolled through Spring 2025
- QT BIPOC (queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, people of color) and Southern Arizona students especially encouraged to apply
Director's Fund Awards
The Director’s Fund provides up to $1,500 in crucial support for innovative short-term projects that emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration.
Application Process:
To apply for the Director's Fund, please submit an application form through the link below. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Student Development Opportunity for the Fourth Annual Day of the Dead
The W.A. Franke Honors College is offering a non-credit Student Development Project for undergraduate students to participate in integrating culture, community, and ephemeral art based on ancestral Mexican techniques and expressions. Franke Honors students are eligible to apply for positions working on guided design and production of a thematic installation to be displayed during the "Day of the Dead 2024" event on campus.
Students will have the opportunity to participate in instructional sessions, meet local artists and University of Arizona faculty members, and conduct specific tasks. This year, students will collaborate with a group of students from Tec of Cananea in Sonora, Mexico, contributing to this art expression and its installation.
The event will be held on **October 25th from 5:30 - 8:30 pm** at the University Campus Store - Level 1 in the Student Union.
Working sessions will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at Honors Village, Room 2109 & 2111 on:
- October 08
- October 10
- October 15
- October 17
Final sessions will be held on:
- October 22
- October 24
For additional questions, contact:
Nadia Alvarez Mexia, PhD
W.A. Franke Honors College
Nadia Alvarez Mexia
Sandra Bernal, PhD
College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
Sandra Bernal
If you have an opportunity you'd like to share, please email us.
Watch Fronteridades Lecture Series Live Streams
Present at Show & Tell!
Show & Tell is an interdisciplinary multimedia presentation series, hosted in partnership with Petroglyphs Tucson.
This fun, informal space allows scholars, artists, performers and community members to share innovative work and creative new ideas. These participatory events are open to the public and always free.
Fall 2024 Show & Tell Events
Show & Tell: Life, Love and Resilience in the Borderlands
The Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry in collaboration with University of Arizona Libraries’ Special Collections presents Show & Tell: "Life, Love and Resilience in the Borderlands” on September 10 at 5 p.m. in the historic Casino Ballroom. Over the past 3 years UA Confluencenter and Special Collections have worked with dozens of artists, journalists, and organizations to build a digital archive that reflects the unique experiences and stories of the US-Mexico borderlands; stories about everyday life, love and resilience.
Join us for an evening of celebration with mariachis, refreshments, and discussion about the future of historical preservation, journalism and culture work in our borderlands and migrant communities. Our panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Lydia R. Otero and our speakers are Favianna Rodriguez, Alba Fernández-Keys, and Melissa del Bosque.
Spring 2024 Show & Tell Events
Show & Tell - Scholars, Mariachis y Fronteras: Confluencenter’s End of the Year Celebration
May 02, 2024
Speakers:
- Adolfo Estrado, Ph.D. Fine Arts Musicology, Texas Tech University, UNM inclusive Excellence Post-Doctoral and Visiting Scholar fellow
- Dora Rodríguez, Immigrant Rights Advocate, Salvavision
- Richard A. Carranza, Chief of Strategy and Global Development, IXL Learning, CEO, Carranza Educational Consulting, LLC
Moderator: Chantal Ralls
Join us in celebrating the work of our Fronteridades fellow and interns as part of the 2024 Tucson International Mariachi Conference.
Join us Tuesday, May 2, 2024, 5:00-8:00 PM!
Doors open 4:30 PM
Sosa Carrillo House
151 S Granada Ave. Tucson, AZ 85701
Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry - Fronteridades Show & Tell "Local Perspectives on Migration: A Conversation"
Febuary 20, 2024
Speakers:
- Isabel Garcia, Director, Coalición de Derechos Humanos
- Dora Rodríguez, Immigrant Rights Advocate, Salvavision
- Robin Reineke, Assistant Research Social Scientist, UArizona Southwest Center
- David Taylor, Professor, UArizona School of Art
Moderator: Maritza Cárdenas, Confluencenter Acting Director
Confluencenter acting director Maritza Cárdenas will lead a panel of experts to discuss their standpoints on migration at the US-Mexico border. The experts include human rights advocates Isabel García from Coalición de Derechos Humanos and Dora Rodríguez from Salvavision, as well as academics Robin Reineke and David Taylor from the University of Arizona. Through stories, research, and creative practices, the conversation aims to advocate and elevate historically overlooked voices to form a more inclusive, accurate, and just portrayal of the communities on the U.S.-Mexico border. There will be a Q&A section, and attendees will have the opportunity to mingle and keep the conversation going with the panelists at the end of the session. Fronteridades is a project led by the Confluencenter and sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.
Confluencenter will be collecting monetary donations on behalf of Derechos Humanos and Salvavison. Join us in making a positive impact: Every contribution helps!
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